follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and talk directly with authors during our life are granting. twitter.com/booktv. >> what the now is a panel of librarians from around the country discussed their picks for the best upcoming titles from university publishers next on booktv. this event is part of the annual libraries convention hosted by the american library association held in anaheim california. it's about an hour and a half. >> okay, we are about to get started. good afternoon. welcome to the best of the best from the university presses, books you should know about. my name is kim miller and i'm the marketing membership toward nader at the association of american university press.

the aaup is currently celebrating 75 years of cooperation and service. the association of american university presses also known as the aaup celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding in 1937. aaup is an organization grounded in its vision of service whose members engage in forward looking publishing and innovation. aaup promotes the work of university press providing market opportunities and helps its 130 plus members fulfill their common commitment to academy in society. the aaup members are active across many scholarly disciplines including the humanities, the arts and sciences and are innovators in the world of electronic publishing. both the history of the association and the future of

scholarly communications will provide the focus for a series of events including the university press week in november of 2012. to mark the occasion of the aaup 75th anniversary. for more information please feel free to visit our web site at www.aaup.org. today we are here to launch the 22nd edition of university press books for publix and secondary school libraries, the bibliography that most of you have in your hands right now. the bibliography is a popular acquisition resource for librarians. annually the aaup works with the committee to the asl and public librarians who examine and give a specific rating to titles that have been submitted by our member publishers.

the titles that make it into the bibliography are the ones that librarians feel are suitable for secondary school and public libraries. there are copies of the bibliography here and if you missed getting a copy here, they are at the combined book exhibit booth which is the number 24. this afternoon, five members of the university press books committee will each present a set of titles that they feel to be the best of the best of the titles that are featured in the bibliography. at the end of the presentation, three members of this audience will be selected to win our book raffle. each will win a predetermined set of six of the books that are being presented today, so if you haven't already, please be sure to put your business card or card with your name and contact

information including your e-mail address in the raffle box which is at the back of the room. one less thing. since we are being taped, i would ask if everyone would please take a moment to silence their phones or anything else that might have a beep or a ring. also if you need to leave the room, which i can't see why any of you what, but if you have to leave us, would you do so being mindful of the projector and any other issues that might obstruct someone else's few. so, let's get started. can we please give a warm welcome to our first presenter from zion benton public library. thank you also much for coming. [applause]

>> i felt i can manage to coordinate this while i'm talking. i pleaded with kim to let me do a couple more books because i have some wonderful books this year and i swore i would talk fast. i hope i can keep to that promise. i donate most of the books that i received or that i review and received to my library but this year, each year there's at least one book that i absolutely have to keep for myself and this is this year's book. the author, elizabeth dellinger who has written extensively about antiques. her late husband was an americana expert and regular appraiser on the antiques roadshow. rather than writing exclusively about objects in the kind of archaeology, she writes about those pioneering collectors, their passions and their motivations. first however comes a definition

of folk art. the term was coined by it at german art historian who said the folk art is not a static activity. it is the product of individuals whose skills contribute to the vitality and constant renewal of genre. for american collectors, folk meant ordinary people. in europe it meant peasants. it meant people who were in sophisticated circles creating objects in style to -- and that encompassed everything from pottery and glass to drawings and watercolors and other implements, products in specific groups like the shakers or the pennsylvania dutch. art exemplifies a competent appropriate approach to design. the centennial of the 1876 awaken and interest in old americana and even at that date they realized over there were many things that have happened

from the 18th century that were being lost, the concept that the store reservation began in the 1880s and people realized that houses and ways of life were where are being torn down. there was an emphasis on new things. dillinger writes about early collectors, henry mercer who discovered until being a german folk art and the mercer museum in doylestown and pennsylvania still has antiques of many kinds and objects that are interesting for their beauty, oddity and historic significance. he felt with one of these is nice to look at than a dozen is even better than i can tell you that there is quantity. these are not in the order that i put them in. this is a picture of a 1752

kitchen re-created at the philadelphia museum of art which was discovered by its ureter collector in 1926 and this is how americana objects have been displayed in museums. this picture is from the chapter about -- for not only collected shaker furniture but also promoted widespread knowledge about it and respect for shaker beliefs and culture. they made their first contact in massachusetts in 1923. one day while driving -- this is how collectors got into this. one day they stop to stopped to buy a loaf of red from the shakers. they left with a new -- and started collecting a world full of shaker furniture. these collections, these are

from the collections of william and marjorie sderot per kill you may recognize the name who illustrated dozens of children's books. her parents were born in lithuania but settled in new york city. they summered in maine and developed an appreciation for folk art so they decorated their entire house to accommodate the collections and peggy created her own folk art which were hooked rugs and that is on the left-hand side. the shelbourne museum, and i had to have a quilt picture here. many of you might understand why. the shelbourne museum in vermont is one of the preeminent collections of american folk art and among the many items there are quilts. in this book sillinger tells about the histories of these people and how they came about their collections and their

passions. one wonderful quote from william chrysler garbage -- garbage -- and they said simply we love this stuff and we have quite ended session with it. their specialties were printed paintings such as this cat which is oil on canvas painted between 1850 in 1900 now the national gallery of art. in substance the abundant illustration and elegant prose, the recounting of the stories and all of the disagreements among collectors at a to a richly rewarding book for all americana collectors and certainly for public libraries and i think it would be a great addition for high school libraries as well. the next book and coma rethought this book was wonderful also when we we are both enthusiastic

about the new atlas of world history. this is a large format book. this is not a picture. this book is as wide as it is tall and it has to be to accommodate the wonderful format of the information. it allows two, two page spreads for each of 49 snapshots of the world. the oldest snapshot is 6 million to 100,000 years ago and the newest being in 2010. i picked random maps of the world simply to illustrate how the book is set up. the two-page spread is typical. this is 1000 b.c.. the bears introductory text that describes major political and economic trends. down at the bottom are the five largest cities in the world at that time and just to add to your knowledge of the world because you probably haven't thought much about 1000 b.c.

lately, the five largest cities were a city called ramses, 120,000 people, babylon had 60,000 people, how when china had 50,000 people in memphis and egypt had 50,000 -- in egypt had 50,000. there's a color-coded key which is the nexus of populations which shows the type of society, the cultural and economic development or the empire. there are color coatings on the actual maps where state-level societies and empire so you have turquoise on this map is the middle east, china and a little bit in mexico. they're a major migration and trade routes but not many on this map because of the year and there were uninhabited areas. they are the white ones and you know this very plainly madagascar is uninhabited, new zealand, iceland and at the very far left is hawaii.

you can't really see it on the slight but it is there in the book's uninhabited. the second spread is a timeline, and this is also 1000 b.c. so once again it's color-coded. this is an example, the foundation of the hebrew kingdom went unnoticed by the great powers of the region but it was a fundamental importance to judaism, christianity and islam. the estimated total population of the world is at the bottom and at that time it was approximately 115 million people. the key map shows all the world in different colors. the timeline is arranged in horizontal bands by topic, economy, religion and science and technology, art and architecture. q. can see the purple left, the head of gilgamesh. the blue is an -- from mexico and the to on the right is the

derbyshire england. flipping ahead, this is 907 a.d. and you can see the difference in the world, the colors of the map. baghdad has 900,000 people in constantinople has 250,000 people. a city in china has 200,000 people and japan, 200,000 people and cordoba had 200,000 people. by this time iceland and hawaii were subtle but not new zealand. china is divided into kingdoms. charlemagne empire breaks up. we are learning what is happening not only in europe but the simultaneous explanation of what is happening in the world. by 1715, the largest city in the world was istanbul with 700,000 people. the ching empire had conquered mongolia and the war of ellsberg which was france versus

netherlands. the ottomans were defeated in vienna and in india there was a ripple. the world population at the time was 700 million. by 2010, wow, look at the difference in the maps. shifting balance of local power is the sidebar title. the largest cities in 2010 were told no, mexico city, mumbai, são paolo and new york in the world population was 6.91 billion. it is so easy for us to compartmentalize the history and geography. you are either studying the u.s., studying rush or starting japan. the beauty of haywood's book is it shows us what was going on about the u.s. was consumed by the civil war, world war i was the european war with global entanglements due to the colonialism of world war ii had battlefronts for multiple continents. the library journal review

evaluated this up very succinctly. valuable picture of human development that was useful to academic and public libraries. the benefit of this book -- american menswear is just great fun. there are many books devoted to women's wear about who designed it and who wore it and how to wear it but there were far fewer books for their counterparts. daniel dealies boyd fills this history. shopkeeper supplied ready-made shirts trousers and coats to sailors who had an immediate need for an expensive clothing after long voyages. these slops as the sailors where

was called did not fit well and that is where we get the term. the measuring tape was introduced in 1820. how is that for a trivial fact. it led to standardize rules of measuring. the u.s. army began began manufacturing uniforms in large volumes as far back as the war of 1812. master tailors design patterns to professional cutters he laid them out. the cutters would maximize the fabric used by an efficient way layout. they been cut the fabric to home sewers who are under contract to so for the army. during the 19th century were tremendous changes in clothing. we all know about the industrial revolution and how it changed textile production. u.s. cotton and the sewing machine of course, distribution also underwent a revolution in the 19th century. department stores came to american cities and of course by

1900 montgomery ward and sears roebuck provided catalogs and mail order. shirts, until the end of the 19th century, was considered highly embarrassing for a man to be seen jacket list by a woman who was not -- laborers and tradesmen were the exception. shirts had detachable callers for two reasons. fashion, different styles and laundry. it was much easier to take off the caller and wash them in those days before washing machines and oiling white clothing to get a truly clean. for centuries men were pullover shirts that legend is that in 19 -- 1898 a stage actor tore up in the front of the sure wild changing for a performance and explained that is how shirts should be made so it placed an order with a tailor for a center button shirt and they were an

instant success. here is one of the many illustrations in this book taken from an montgomery ward ad so you can see all the styles for the négligee which meant casual over shirts. you notice that come in starch, an on starched, with attached caller and without. sportswear. american men were sports obsessed in the 1920s and that meant new wardrobes and knickers were called -- because they have blouse four inches over the top of the knee socks. that style was popular for golf wear. turtlenecks came from. [roll call] sweaters. they were popularized -- in a play. the book includes information about underwear, about men's bathing suits and i remember my dad saying how that knit fabric stretched terribly. there are chapters about accessories and then talking

about going into the 21st century, and he says that men's fashions don't change? these pictures from the late 1960's and i think many of us might say some fashions changed back to the way they looked before. along the way, in this 300 page book you will examine the of all thing ideas and ideals of masculinity crossed the centuries of american history and the suicidal implication that men's choices in dress. this is a welcome addition to your collection for its contribution to popular history advertising marketing and american popular culture. so some other interesting pictures from throughout the years. some of you might -- some of the men here may have borne their hair like this that we can talk about that afterword. renaissance people is a splendid

look. they are all splendid oaks, aren't they? life that shaped the modern age. the general format of this book are discussing 94 people profiled in this book. each one gets a chapter and they talk about the authors write about the most famous ones, leonardo luther galileo etc. but they have also chosen lesser likes, people who lived in compared up with security and personified their reawakening that is the renaissance. in each separate chapter there is a biography of one person and there are one or two illustrations of the person, painting a drawing or something from a book. there is a bibliography that provides suggestions for further reading. there are many different reasons why we chose this profession but it's a pretty safe bet that we all like to read. the paradigm for us is the book.

author martin lang is a historian of the book. his expertise is the processes by which words are written and transmitted in a blaze of civilization ever guarded and abuse that transmission. for two and a half millennia he managed to have used the book and a manuscript or printed form to record, administer worship and educate he says. the book is more than a useful gadget. christianity, judaism and islam are centered around sacred books. governments derive power from written text for taxation legal coding decisions. magical power is attributed to the written word. the indigenous caribbean islanders regarded letters written by the spanish as supernatural. seemed that the letter knew what would happen to the recipient. some of them.it had a -- we all remember early bible translators were declared heretics for rendering and latin bible into the vernacular. the bible is also been used as an oracle to dip in at random to

find a solution to whatever the concern is. this is an example of how the book is set up. lots of illustrations and a panel of tax. a particular one shows some of these surfaces on which books in the written word were inscribed. this is ancient china and on the left is a picture of turtle -- but the bottom part of a turtle and they have found more than 50,000 in the record. given the rate of turtle reproduction however that was not a very renewable resource in the first chinese books were written on strips of bamboo. there was a whole lot more bamboo than there were turtles and that is what you see on the right. later they used silk which was light and durable but expensive and of course it was the chinese who develop paper using hemp from tree bark and fishing net

in a recombination process similar to that used today. he writes about the ancient egyptian texts, and the great library of alexandria which had a half million scrolls but he also writes about japanese books which were folded accordion style on mulberry fiber paper. ancient buddhist texts written on palm leaves or woodblocks. page 41 shows the patrons say that librarians. he is always shown here composing the life of st. paul. medieval scribes had to be accurate copiers and they didn't understand what they were copying but they had to do it exactly. they also had to be familiar with the even sizes in a range of script and they also had to be able to write in a straight line. i don't think very many of us would be eligible to be a scribe

today. the conquistadors brought their books to the new world. 70% of them were intended to convert the natives but the maya and the anti-had a traditional written style. their paper was made in the inner bark of a fig tree in their books were folded concertina style. this was commissioned by the viceroy of spain. at it is commentary in spanish but the illustrations were done by the natives. what interested me were chapters about aspects of printing and publishing. this is from a chapter about almanacs, early reference books that functioned as diaries. in 1687 in england, 460,000 copies of 30 different almanac titles were sold. a conquistador -- in france and england which had the shepherd of the high mountain on how to live a long, healthy and moral life. it emphasized submission which

reinforced the existing social hierarchy. circulating libraries turning out bestsellers like sir walter scott which were welcomed by publishers who saw libraries as reliable customers. public libraries were viewed by social reformer says the way to control society by providing wide access to literature. as we all know the book has had its enemies. book burners are in a way responding to the supernatural power of the book and of course that evokes and it is visceral response in us. think of the muslims who forbade rushdie satanic diary and of course we have challenges in our own libraries today. in 1900, print with supreme. lions asked is there a crisis? in 2005 china the u.s. and the u.k. each produced 120,000 new titles annually.

people are reading as much as ever but they are reading differently and they multitask as it shows in the caption here. this is an ecuadorian woman who is reading a book and listening to music in a café. lines figures the book crisis affects first world western cultures. the book is not debated in africa or parts of south america where illiteracy is high in digital access is limited. the u.n. says 776 million adults in the world are illiterate and two-thirds of them are women. lions concludes the story of the book is one of ever widening access to reading and writing. there are no rules anymore. we need to widen the availability of books and the skills to read them. those are five of my favorite titles from this year and i hope you will seek them out and enjoy them as well. thank you. [applause]

>> hi everybody. my name is anne marie. my books don't all have such pretty illustrations but we are going to take a look at my three favorites. the first one i'm going to talk about is -- university of washington press. ms. stark it was a international health professional and she worked all over the world. when i first look at this book i must tell you what went to the bottom of my list. i was not so excited to look at the front that i really enjoyed this book especially for students who are maybe sixth grade to 12th grade would probably be very appropriate. it is super easy to read and it's also more like a practical guide to working in general. a couple of the features that i just want to point out is for example chapter 10, working with

your local counterpart. one of the sections of the title, make the counterpart your key adviser. this may seem like practical and reasonable advice for you or i who have worked for a number of years but to a high school student looking to get into international relations who thinks they know everything, this might be advised that they could take to heart. and one of the other comments she also makes it speak in terms of week, not by. so this book is not when to bow and went to handshake and whether to walk next to somebody or behind somebody, but just very practical advice on how to be respectful of other people. the format of the book makes it super quick and easy. one of the things that she has is journalism. she kept a journal since she was working for the last 20 years,

and in the book so let me just read you one of her notes here. and it is not actually the one that is up there because i decided before i found the best one. this is from south pacific island, 2001. ..

>> i the income for a high school students this would be classical advice. pay attention to your surroundings.

i carry a scarf at all times in an islamic country so i can cover my head when necessary. this book would be very, very good for any high school student because it gives practical a vice. that was my first book. the next one is my favorite book that i received. for the secretary for gerald ford at first i thought can i recommend this? was a that back in the 1700s? i said to myself it is journalism. with media communications cover to cover the professor

does not care. i recommend to a lot of the students. i said it is a romp through history. not only with a personal perspective but talk about a journalist with the long hours and then to read he worked 18 or 20 hours they may say is this the career for me? i have him walking with kissinger.

how lot of players in the book that we are here for the four did ministrations people are on the political scene now. anybody know of the ford white house? his first one? >> then he became the chief of staff then the campaign manager. romney has a lot of good and bad stories to talk about. here is in the senate -- in

nixon and cheney. then we have kissinger and rumsfeld. let me read one small excerpt from 196 when ford was running for the presidency. >> i recorded i described it myself as a cannibalistic period. the warehouse does not seem to be much fun anymore. this said jack came to see me in the press office reserving his father. i wonder how many people can sleep if they know they let my father down?

working down here 16 or 18 1/2 knows trouble sleeping at all. by the end rework working hard for his father. that summarizes the way he writes with the white house. is good for a student considering journalism or political science. i had vampire books, did people grave robbers, that was a big portion. this is a historical book

this does not have a lot of illustrations. a lot of the prospective is how of quote folklore became movies source stories written about the influence of our obsession. you will read -- realize renowned this aliens and monsters. something that was written with the wonders of the invisible world. it did say great example how we started with our obsession. and then to construct and new world mythology not with

the giants put the claimant that the native people in america have the special relationship. native americans were seduced to come to america as special servants so they were the children of the double. others see the native americans designed by the devil. then is the old testament of the israelites with the description of the doings plan to tribe the pigeons believe you could not convert the monsters but destroy them. that is in the first chapter. there is a long chapter but then he starts to get the

specific types of monsters. aliens, dead bodies and those kinds of things. students stood enjoy this as a reference book. this book has a nice short chapter on the presentation of aliens. that is my presentation. [applause] >> engage resistance in din culture when we through the alien resistance and native americans have not had access to their own story in

their own voices. instead hollywood and the media interpreted their lives to them and to the rest of us. and it moves away from the common images for those for the diverse groups. this is about text of the prologue. the way to think about and and native american voices. with art and literature and film the title and gauge resistance and is a motive resistance.

those that assimilated their lives. he situates movie movie, poetry, fiction and sculpture as the sovereignty and examines the activism recounting in detail alcatraz island of the american indians on their own terms. >> their wares so many excellent illustrations that requires a certain amount of coordination. here is the cover of the buck. he mentions he caused his activism recall link

alcatraz island on their own terms. need your old enough to remember when native american tribes took over alcatraz island creating of a different culture there when they took back the island including the resident card that you see here. bear with me for just a moment. this is the rare work that presents the interdisciplinary view in with the well-documented volume. it makes it the outstanding choice with the anthropology and art history and the research value makes it highly recommended with the

wellhead populations but the artist in the play's making for alcatraz. and to keep off the property and take off the word indian. the next photo this is a t-shirt image from the movies again entitled the real founding fathers.

with the personal and tribal identity through the narrative that is why the book is so interesting to have paintings and art work but also this is the page from the book poems written in verse and a dialogue with the 10 -- connection poetry and drama memoir and s.a. and fiction. the total of this is indian joe or alcatraz proved a point* 48 by 108 inches by

the national park service. this view of the u.s. was entitled but a memory map with mixed media on paper in the book there are several versions one that struck me was this same is is all brown called the browning of america. and in this particular one the painter and flock to

oklahoma evoking the cherokees trail of tears that so many died as they were displaced into oklahoma. there each 18 by 12 inches. last one, the author spends time talking about indian art i'm sorry the national museum of the indian. and he makes the comment that it takes says its main mission to rewrite the text taking skin color head on this shows the notion of who they are those that have been created and

perpetuated. they problem lies the issues to spot lights and the city of perpetuation and spends two chapters looking not only at the physical structure but to with those expectations it is about interpretation of indian life i highly recommend the book is very different from the public libraries and gives a different voice. >> my next favorite book they are slightly out of

order. travels with mom in the land of an inch up. to the bare tuesday and tough reality when the meat to the author of the memoir those who divorced from her father only to discover the tow by middle her mother develops alzheimer's. we can never learn everything about this disease much can only be speculated and observed in bewildered meant and horror. those who watch will quickly recognize her once gifted

mother and hurt erratic behavior. but too quickly forgotten the conversations, i cannot remember what i had for breakfast. and her determination to protect her mother to see her through the last catastrophe with her mother's lifelong friends who might fail to appear at all. kate developed her own strategy is. at cn she like many us battled feelings of grief, relief and gilts even though we've no she did everything possible for her mother.

that is clearly therapeutic and readers will find it equally therapeutic. it makes this an outstanding choice for a book clubs and academic libraries especially those that have social workers. and a stand there was some is prance with the publicity that the overheard public library of was left out of the presentation but it is appropriate. i did not mention that to but i am a county librarian from riverside. spending time at the reference desk i amazed at people who are caregivers.

those have issues like this. and i had a colleague to read the book. she was very moved by it. fennecs book is how candidates info grace in campaigns. had only because of the 2012 election but their recent past elections in a sharper focus. authors a communications professor and a political science professor of serve

any tool available to persuade voters to the election even appealing to deplorable attitudes to accomplish their goals. immigration reform, a food stamp president, ratio authenticity and the technique is reexamined through documented cases including footnotes and charts and graphs. this is an outstanding collection for public libraries for libraries and schools like history and academic libraries. and let me say there are so many books that i received

that really enjoyed. then i donate them. most of them i donated to my daughter's school librarian and also at the college of arts and humanities but i could have kept all of them very easily. the best of times and the worst of times contemporary stories from the gilded age. the new gilded age has become known with social and political issues and short story format with authors who bring in sight from a

variety. i will start again. hold on. a full range of issues of short story format to who bring insights from a variety of ethnicity others include the immediately recognizable those equally literate circles. there in touse of collections so relation, identity and working conditions. the involvement to identify which ones to include give accessibility for anyone who enjoys reading or discussing short stories wherever they can find them. their written with a variety of styles making this type

recommended price colt libraries for literature class is. i recommend all four of these books in addition to the ones you find a new or catalog. make great traces for several libraries. thank you. [applause] >> i am a high school library and in vermont. i picked three books that are my favorites banned all happened to be about world war ii.

the first book is a memoir called accident of eight. move good german army invaded austria and the public ceased to exist when in the province. with all the other boys he was segregated from his non-jewish classmates that he would be expelled at the end of the school year. it became clear his family needed to leave austria but they had almost no options. most countries restricted, the jews from controlled areas. the first choice is no relatives with a quota system.

the only feasible destination is yugoslavia. it was still an independent country free of the anti-semitic legislation. but then came the problem of valid passports and entry visas. but they were granted papers filed the rest of the family was not. his mother put him on a train to yugoslavia by himself and said goodbye hoping they could join him. his mother sent his brother max two english and she crossed illegally into yugoslavia and for temporarily reunited. after he was safe for a while but at 17 a piece of paper stated as a jew being

dangerous has been sentenced to years hard labor in the concentration camp. he was arrested and imprisoned ascendance of hard labor. he knew it was the harshest of all concentration camps. he thought i am only 17. if i were card and a day i will not me harmed. but the thoughts vanished quickly. he was assigned to the grave digger detail he had to drag out the corp.'s and load them onto the soleil take them to the field then spend the day digging a mass grave in frozen ground flinging the corpse in each had to hold 400 bodies.

the earth was frozen hard and the work was exhausting and painful no prisoners had clubs and four in a week and state. coming grave diggers were murdered under the pretext of working too slowly. it was the mood of the guards. but he ended up spending just three weeks because the not see general who responded to an appeal and this and is a picture of the release form. eventually he joined the communist resistance movement to become the army better mariane. annemarie roscello with

anti-semitism because he was then triple jeopardy because he was a jew, he spoke german with the german education and many could not appreciate the difference and because his first name was hungarian that was the ally of the german and detested by the partisans. he became involved and ed job he was especially proud to partake. this is afoot you. of one group of their men. in this photograph he is in

the middle. the tallest. at 45 he fled the regime and at the age of 22 emigrated to the u.s. and eventually moved back to europe. knowing that my personal stamina or resourcefulness played a significant role and religious belief played no role at all i am deeply disturbed to buy the suggestion they survive due to their courage or their faith. application those who perished also survive if it on may showed the same qualities is disparaging.

it is mindless nonsense. we who survived zero hour lives to chance we run no more worthy or stronger than those who were hanged, shot comic gas or slaughtered. if i have lived to write these words it is nothing but an accident of fate. i must seize the opportunity. this will appeal to teenagers because both describe the teenage years. also books about the holocaust are popular with the students because it is part of our curriculum and it would be a great book in a public library.

the next book is called finished 40 the enrolled -- the untold story of the b-52 bombers. after a said japanese attacked pearl harbor a young boy named term and lied about his age and joined the army event volunteered to four gerry training then assigned to a base in hawaii. he is the in man in the middle. he thought it would be an adventure his first time out to shoot seeing and being shot at.

the express group became veterans to understand the price of a single combat mission in new firsthand they were capable adversaries. this is the crew of the dog patch and others had similar nicknames like the green hornet and superman. the dog patch express comes from the cartoon lab will abner. she has a corncob pipe delivering a knockout pledge with her left fist. using fragmentation those

used by the be 24 with the band around the nose and tail. also 250 and 1,000 and 2,000-pound bombs. the projection was the hawaiian islands and looking for a the readiness with the japanese defense the island was slated for invasion next would be the navy ships. this is the true story of the young men of the 11th group as it flew the most perilous bombing missions of the war.

most look to them being fought in europe but many were determined fighters of the south central pacific with navigational training and face thousands of miles with no alternative landing sites losses were enormous to complete 40 combat missions and make it home again. one such mission would complete a minefield closing the shipping channel. there were four bomber planes who loaded with four, 1,000-pound mines but because it was defended by japanese ships they flew a

risky route had to fly so close the wing tips overlapped at 1.8 lt. miles released a mind as another past in a bank beneath and it crashed into the fuselage which you can see the picture. a parachute was attached to slow the descent so it drug the plane down while the mind when into the elevator and the rudder. to your men grabbed an ax to start chopping the parachute lines and they worked said ben barrels was improvised crowbars without setting off 400 pounds of dynamite.

they could only hope and pray the plane would hold together. they made it. but this aircraft never flew again. phosphorus bombs japanese anti-aircraft weapon with selling-- going over american planes the bombs were set to detonate above the target aircraft. this is a picture of one. levying hot pieces of phosphorus to burn a hole through the bomber.

here is the picture of view jima here is another picture of the be 24. this brings "the reader" along from midway end guam from the targets increasingly closer to japan. the author's research is obvious and appeals to "the reader" because it reads like a page turning story. my last book is called a larger family letters from the canadian home front

19431944. as world war ii was under way families began in effect committing british children. at first it was limited to the well-to-do families but then companies like ford and kodak arranged evacuation of what children of their families. then the british government was involved to make evacuation equitable to

welcome three boys into a home with that was not large enough? here is the picture of read williams then they will come to those three boys in their small house in toronto can

adapt. the boys were private evacuees and in a different position than those who came under the corb. the wilsons were not eligible for tax relief although they could eventually send money and clothing to canada, the bulk of the financial burden fell on the volume since. guardianship was not a vehicle concern but it brought out personal issues and every was constantly forced to deal with raising children. at war they may seem small but questions that are difficult to answer with their own children are even more difficult with somebody else's.

sometimes it is possible to get margaret sharp's input but transatlantic communication was difficult and letters may take weeks. they could go down with the torpedoed ship and usually parental decisions could not wait that long. margaret was reluctant and three had to ask her to write more frequently to her voice to ensure they did not forget her. here is a picture of the two women when they got together 1958. it is amazing to see where distant cousins were prepared to take all three boys from a death different country for the indefinite

period. although bill and christopher went off to live with different family is but that the offer was offered margaret fails to appreciate. when of the letters written by the boys. not important to what it said but it is the scribbles. rewrote over 150 letters they are remain with detailed of holidays holidays, financial implications, church, games and activities and education. it reflected the concerns of a portrait of what was

canada's second largest city. and the special insight of child evacuation brother is a four word that puts the letters and historical context in the book is edited by a breeze daughter and margaret youngest son. this grabbed my attention because of my canadian heritage but i like how the letters reveal how the families intertwined and the child evacuation program but i was unaware of. i think it would appeal to high-school students as well as public libraries. thank you.

[applause] >> hello. i am hillary elbert. my books are not filled with pretty pictures. the one book has the most disturbing images. they have something to offer to everyone maybe the high-school teacher or the world leader but they teach a lesson that is important. methane more important than give knowledge. each challenges "the reader" in a different way. if you open it not only

reading what they want you to learn by your own interpretation. sorry. tj literacy eight middle school and high-school classrooms is of a great source for teachers would say new approach. it goes beyond the textbook that makes learning the facts necessary and memorable. as you can see from the

introduction 18 is them an idea what it will teach the student retrograde to resource for teachers and use his primary source material by looking beyond the internet and members asian to the actual source document to bring the history of live right away to help with the concept of time and place rather than unable to use the source document this gives them a modified version and word bank. and is at the bottom it tells them what it means so a struggling student and

understand the word. question and analysis follow. then they're asked to take a side and prepare a position then they discuss it in the classroom and help the teacher present a lesson plan. this is a great book to give to the history teacher. the analysis that helps with suggested resources that come at the end of the book it is not a substitute but it comes with those that open up the textbook section and use that section with

this part of the book and it makes it more interesting sourcing end contextualize thing each loathsome plant stands on its own it revolves around one question of primary source documents to give them something more interesting which would make it more interesting in the classroom for me. my next book worlds apart was my favorite book. that was remarkably a written and she is still very much involved in bosnia it even today.

the ambassador to vienna and spends time going to be enough while it was happening. "war and peace." happening during the wartime the book itself has the two sections from the inside and the outside. this would be like of factory that fascinated me that she could get the trust of the civilians like this man how they were surviving

and the factory was run from an old motor they had stolen. she met with the people to bring the information back and win try to get the people at these dinners and austrian ambassadors and husband a the good-looking guy to get more involved to end the siege. this book was written and the information was out there for rwanda and brought this information to the world beaters.

that really upset me. frankly they can use fists information with syria and they ignore it again. >> the last book is the quotable thoreau. it is a great book. very little and he would love the book. it feels good when you touch it. it is organized brilliantly. not just random quotes. it is alphabetical. and ends with the weeds and with miscellaneous subjects solely even created a

miscellaneous subjects but you then a discussion how to pronounce his name. people used to call him zero and did not pronounces it owe. and then gives quotes about himself. one is my own way of living that i complain of that he is the equal opportunity curmudgeon. it is also illustrated with objects of slugged used to kill a moose with the quote perhaps the hunter is that a greatest under not accepted to the humane society. his survey of walden pond do

your work and finish it. you will know how to end it. the map of walden pond. the first one. the end contains quotations it is day joy to return to over and over. my three books a far short. they are beautiful to touch. well printed i recommend to all libraries and secondary education all institutions. thank you very much. [applause]

>> the inventor of information theory. and recent books about claude and channell and. -- channell and who is the great day-care i have been following for decades. i have studied telephone and internet this requires me to master information theory.

this is perfectly aligned for capitalist economics with a better way to explain and the existing models on the false imitations of physical theory. capitalism is not material. it is informational. just as the key information under his theory is news or unexpected bit this with capitalism it is profit the surprising upside of entrepreneurialism creativity. i am studying information theory.

these books are good preparation for my book next year knowledge and power.

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